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He turned to writing, first short stories and novels, and later, screenplays. He changed his name to Borden Chase, allegedly getting his nominal inspiration from Borden Milk and Chase Manhattan Bank. Novelist. Chase wrote a story based on his Holland Tunnel experience with Edward Doherty.
Borden Chase. Writer: Red River. Prior to his career as a writer, Chase was employed as chauffeur for notorious prohibition-era gangster Frankie Yale -- until Yale was 'rubbed out' by Al Capone's mob in July 1928.
Borden Chase weaves the tale of the first cattle drive from Texas on the Chisholm Trail with concise, but picturesque prose. He tells a timeless story of honor, betrayal, and love at a breakneck pace that never grows old.
Born Frank Fowler in Brooklyn , New York, Borden Chase served in the Navy during World War I and put in time as a shipyard worker, carnival high diver, driver for gangster Frankie Yale, and sandhog on the New York's Holland Tunnel before turning to writing.
Borden Chase pursued a successful screenwriting career from the mid-1930s into the 1970s by creating tough heroes who faced danger and death in the uncivilized days of the American West.
Borden Chase pursued a successful screenwriting career from the mid-1930s into the 1970s by creating tough heroes who faced danger and death in the uncivilized days of the American West.
Borden Chase was born Frank Fowler in 1900. In his early writing career, he wrote short stories that were published in Argosy, Liberty, The Saturday Evening Post, and many pulp magazines. He then began to write screenplays for both motion pictures and television.
